Since I've been working in my 6th grade field experience, I've not had too many chances to see technology being used in the classroom. There are no computers in the classroom and the students only go to computers once a week for less than an hour. When they go to computers, it seems that they spend most their time typing paragraphs that are written on the front board. It appears to be more of a keyboarding class than computers. I could be wrong in my assumptions seeing that I've only been able to witness one week at computers.
We have started teaching our lessons and today we used a PowerPoint presentation in our lesson. The students really loved it and were sad when we finished with the computer portion of the lesson. They paid really good attention and were able to follow along as they took notes and participated in the discussion.
The students have been very receptive to Tara and I and seem interested in our lessons on ancient Rome. It's been a good experience working with them and I'm excited to present the rest of the lessons and see how they respond to those lessons. We have planned to use the computer in most all of our lessons in one form or another. I'm sure this will help them learn what we are presenting and help them keep their interest.
I realize that as a teacher, it's almost impossible to use PowerPoint and the computer in all my lessons due to the amount of time it takes to prepare the lessons that way, but I know that as I find as many ways as possible to use the computer in my lessons, the students learning experience will be enhances because of it.
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